The review follows an audit of police-involved deaths under the tenure of former Chief Medical Officer David Fowler, who testified that George Floyd's death was caused by heart disease and drug use.
An independent investigator says some city officials "knowingly suppressed" information and gave false statements about the March death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who was killed by police.
![A new audit of autopsies conducted under David Fowler's tenue "will determine whether independent experts agree or disagree with the [the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's] determination of cause and manner of death, whether such experts believe the OCME's determinations were based on adequate investigations," the panel's said.](/sites/default/files/styles/three_two_702x468/public/npr_story_images/2022/10/19/ap21104716151191-ba6ffb86ec64cea6c60ef62b087abb08dfd64b2e.jpg?h=d704b1d1&itok=0htMNGkh)
